Dispensing scale with a needle moving over a scale and instantaneously indicating the weight in units



Aprll 13, 1943. ENDRES DISPENSING SCALES WITH NEEDLES MOVING OVER SCALES AND INSTANTANEOUSLY INDICATING THE WEIGHT 1N UNITS Filed Aug. 10, 1940 Inventor-.-

Patented Apr. 13, 1943 DISPENSING SCALE WITH A NEEDLE MO"- ING OVER A SCALE AND INSTANTANE- OUSLY INDICATING THE WEIGHT IN UNITS Peter Endres, Cologne, Ehrenfeld, Germany;

vested in the Alien Property Custodian Application August 10, 1940, Serial No. 352,156 In Germany August 23, .1939

1 Claim.

For avoiding the inconveniences which resulted, for instance when dosing amalgams for dental requirements, therefrom that the con: stituents of these amalgams were measured more or less by guessing, propositions have already been made to dose with sufficient accuracy the constituents of the mixture as regards quantity or weight by special arrangements. As regards accuracy the scales dosing according to weight grammes, but also over an additional scale or over several additional scales. The subdivision of these additional scales differs from the normal scale in the actually desired weight proportions of the substances to be mixed the Zero mark of the normal scale being always in the same position.

This inventive idea can be carried out in two forms of construction based on the one hand are superior to the arrangements in which the 1 0n the supp si i n t a the mixing proportion constituents of the mixture are determined acof the constituents of material to be weighed cording to volume. The latter arrangements fail may be selected as desired but must be predetereasily if the granular constituent of the mixture mined, and on the other hand on that this mix does not slip on uniformly. ing proportion may be varied as desired. If the The apparatus working on the basis of the mixing proportion of the material to be Weighed dosing according to weight utilize the principle has to remain constant, for instance azbzc and of the lever scales, which means that they utilize so forth, a second, third and other additional a horizontal beam resting on a knife-edge, each scale has to be provided, besides the scale with of the two arms of said beam carrying one or normal subdivision for units of Weight such as several loading bowls or cups for holding the congrammes; the first additional scale is subdivided stituents of the material to be weighed. The in the proportion length proportion of the two arms, or the disa tance of the cups from the knife-edge is then T adapted to the difierent weights of the constitut f the material t be mixed and to the the second additional scale in the proportion weight of the cups or must be adapted to the same. T g iii figfig gi gg g g 223 1 3: i 122i and so forth, but all additional scales are marked as such. It is comparatively diificult to attend with figures. correstondlpg e normal scale them They must be carefully tested and and are designated if desired 1n difterent colours, ulated, same as the apparatus dosing according p of ssrlpt and the i For mlxmg the to volume for every new kind of amalgam or stituents of the material at first the substance if other abnormal conditions have to be confor mstanc?merm.1ry"w Welghed on the gram sidered which may happen in the dental practice. scale up to me .deslred figure .whereuPon h They further require the provision of several m for Instance t Chips 0f sllvel 1s shiftable and adjustable containers to be filled poured Into the cup and Weighed up to the Same and to be mounted on separate carriers and figure on the fitst addltlonal t the equipped with regulating means The cost of substance 0, for instance granular t n, weighed production and the price of the Scales are 40 on the second additional scale again is filled into by considerably increased. All these scales are the to the same figute and so forth suited each one for a special purpose and cannot Wetghmg of the constltp'ents. to be mlxefi be used for norm a1 weighing Such as they are is terminated. The total Weight in grammes is so that for normal weighing separate scales must g g x fi gf ggi 21. 2 2 33? to be Variable iiito the invention these inconvem all additional scales are subdivided in the proiences are overcome thereby that only one single portion cup is used, destined to hold the constituents ii of the material to be weighed, said cup being a removable and carrie y a ystem of hinged and in those steps which probably will have to rods and a penduling needle balancing the movebe used. By shifting in the direction of the zero ment of the cup and of the system of hinged line of the normal scale the plate carrying the rods of s 0 1 y Oscillating a u its f crum additional scales, intermediate values can be read and moving not only over the normal scale subwith sufllcient accuracy in such wide limits that divided according to units of weight, for instance th number of steps need not be too great.

For amalgams destined for dental purposes the mixing proportion is for kinds poor in silver between the limit values :4 and 514.7 and for kinds rich in silver between 5:6 and 5:7. Practically one scale will therefore be sufficient for all intermediate values.

An embodiment of the invention is shown by way of example in Figures 1-i of the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 shows in front elevation partly in section a pendulum scale in which a plate carrying the additional scales is arranged shiftable in vertical direction in the frame of the scales.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows in front elevation a fraction of the plate carrier for the additional scales.

Fig. 4 shows a fraction of the front elevation of a carrier with the normal scale and with two additional scales, which carrier may be fixed on the surface of the frame and in which scales maybe engraved, if the proportions of the constituents of the mixture are to be constant instead of variable.

A frame plate I resting on a pair of stationary feet 2 and on an adjustable foot 3 has a sectorshaped aperture 4 above the normal scale l9 subdivided into units of weight such as grammes. This aperture 4, if desired, can be covered by a glass plate. On a hinge pin 5 the needle l4, from the upper end of which extends at an angle an arm I, is pivotally mounted. On the outer end of this arm 1 a holder 9, ID for the cup I l destined to hold the material to be weighed is hingedly mounted. The holder 9, H] is further hingedly mounted on the outer end of a rod 8 the inner end of which is hingedly mounted on a hinge pin 6. A horizontal rod extending from hinge pin 5 carries a slidable counterweight l5 serving to balance the weight of the hinged parallelogram and of the cup and its holder. A plate 3| is shiitably mounted in two guide ways l6, I! of frame plate l and additional scales 20, 2| are engraved in this plate 3|. The cup H is loosely mounted in the seat I!) at the top end of rod 9. A zero line 22 at the right hand end of scales 20, 2| engraved in the shiftable plate 3| has two graduations 24, adapted to be adjusted on an arrow mark 23 provided on the frame plate I. This arrow mark serves to indicate the selected mixing proportion. A rod 28 is mounted in bearing blocks 25 extending from the back of frame plate I and carries a pinion 29 which meshes with a rack 27 on the back of the shiftable plate 3|. The rod 28 can be turned by means of a handle 30 at the end of the rod to move the shiftable plate 3| in vertical direction. If the proportion of the constituents of the substances to be mixed has to be constant, the aperture 4 and the shiftable plate 3l and also the elements for guiding and shafting said plate are not necessary. In

this instance a separate scale carrier [8 can be fixed on the frame plate I, or the scales can be engraved in the front surface of this frame plate. If however the proportion of the constituents of the mixture is variable, the desired intermediate step of this variable proportion is adjusted in that, according to Figs. 1-3, one of the lines of the transverse graduations 24, 25 is brought at the height of the arrow mark 23 on the frame plate I. The normal scale l9 indicates then at the weighing of the first constituent of the mixture to be produced the weight of this constituent for example in tenths of a gramme and the scale 20 or 2| of graduation line adjusted to the arrow mark 23 indicate the weight of the second constituent of the mixture to be produced. At this weighing operation the needle I4 indicates on the scale l9 for the tenths of a gramme at the same time also the weight of the mixture.

When the arrangement according to Figs. 1 to 3 is used as scales for medicaments, gold and the like the shiftable plate 3| is either not considered at all or adjusted so that its scales 2!), 2| and its graduations 24, 25 are covered by the frame plate I. In this instance as well as when scale carrier 18 shown in Fig. 4 is used the scale l9 always indicates directly the weight in figures.

By an additional weight 32 to be hooked on a hook 33 of the end Ma of the needle M, as shown in Fig. 1, in connection with a second scale 19a the weighing range for the weighing with direct indication of weight in figures, for instance in grammes, can be enlarged as desired. The additional weight may be constructed so that the scale I9 is partly covered by the same.

I claim:

In a scale chart for weighing scales, wherein the weighing scales include a pivoted pointer, the scale chart including a front frame plate having engraved in its front side a main scale for the main constituent of a mixture and one or more additional scales for additional constituents of the mixture, the additional scales having graduations differing from the graduation of the main scale in correspondence with the desired proportion by weight of the constituents of the mixture and having a common vertical zero line with the main scale, the frame plate having a sector-shaped aperture, a shiftable plate behind said frame plate and having engraved in its front side the additional scales for the additional constituents of th mixture, a transverse zero line displaced from the direction of the zero line of the main scale, and transverse graduations, one for each additional scale visible through said sectorhaped aperture when said shiftable plate is in suitable position.

PETER ENDRES. 

